Following on from what we were thinking about (Ps 119:33-40) on Sunday evening (12 Jan) prompted by the verse above (among others) from Psalm 119 here are some relevant words from Trim Chester in his book ‘You can change – God’s transforming power for our sinful behaviour and negative emotions’:

The battle for holiness is made up of what Horatius Bonar calls “daily littles.” It’s not given to many of us to make life-and death choices for our Saviour. Not many will be called on to recant or be martyred. For us the battle is made up of thousands of little moments—choices between self and service. We fall, not when we face death, but when we face a traffic jam. It’s too easy to imagine ourselves as strong Christians who would stand firm in the face of persecution, while every day we let sinful desires control us. We imagine ourselves winning the great battles when all the time we’re losing the “daily littles.” But the “daily littles” are the stuff of the battle. Bonar says, “The Christian life is a great thing, one of the greatest things on earth. Made up of daily littles, it is yet in itself not a little thing, but in so far as it is truly lived . .. is noble throughout—a part of that great whole, in which and by which is to be made known to the principalities and powers in heavenly places the manifold wisdom of God (Ephesians 3:10).”

Good reason in those words and the verse from Psalm 119 to pray for and encourage one another that we might, by God’s grace, be faithful in our ‘daily littles’.

(David Scott 15 Jan)